Midterm Review 2024

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What river is sacred to the Hindu faith?

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Ganges River

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What is the main cause of air pollution in China?

Back

coal burning factories and car emissions

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What is the main cause of pollution in the Yangtze River?

Back

factories dumping waste and fertilizer run-off

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When a government decides to increase a tariff, it increases the amount of a tax placed upon _________.

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imported goods

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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic questions that all economic systems must answer: For whom to produce? What to produce? How much to produce? How to produce?

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How much to produce?

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Investing in human capital means spending money on: factories and businesses, education and training, developing natural resources, machinery and technology.

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education and training.

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Which is often an effect of a high literacy rate?

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a higher standard of living

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A _________ economic system is usually used in an autocratic government.

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command

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Which environmental issue impacts the most people in the Middle East (Southwest Asia)? Options: Water shortage/not enough, air pollution, hurricanes and monsoons, deforestation

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Water shortage/not enough

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Which of the facts is true of Judaism? Options: worship in mosques, Jesus is the founder, began in Saudi Arabia, Abraham is the founder

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Abraham is the founder